http://www.cowancreekmusic.org Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:54:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Dear everyone, If you were at the 2010 music school this year, you probably know me – I was the college student walking around with a camera pressed up against my eye, the “Official Cowan Creek Photographer.” If you were bothered by my borderline-compulsive need to snap a picture of anything ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=125 Art Stamper: Meghan Bryant, daughter of Randy and Jill Bryant of Martin, Kentucky.  Burt Hatfield: Whitney Stamper, daughter of Shawn and Tammy Stamper of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Rodney Sanders:  Jack Adams, son of Beverly Adams of Letcher, Kentucky. Ray Slone Memorial Teaching Assistantship:  Justin Parker, son of Rob Parker of Frankfort, Kentucky. http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=117 Art Stamper Scholarship:  for fiddle students Burt Hatfield Scholarship:  Banjo and/or Guitar students Charlie Whitaker Scholarship: Square Dance calling students The above scholarships are awarded to a student based on commitment, excellence, and accomplishment.  Open to students at any level. Ray Slone Teaching Assistantship: This scholarship is for Fiddle and/or Banjo students.  The students ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=116 Have you ever noticed how fast annual events keep happening so quickly anymore?  Seems like you think about them throughout the year, and suddenly they are here, they happen, and then they are gone!  That's what it is like for us here at the Cowan Community Center and our work ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=111 The Cowan Community Action Group, Inc. has been notified that it is among the top 50 semi-finalists in the 2009 Coming Up Taller Awards by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its partner agencies, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=110 The Art Stamper Scholarship for Fiddle Students is awarded to a fiddle student based on commitment, excellence, and accomplishment.                                                                                                                            2008 Recipient:  Joseph Collum, age 8, Shelby County. The Burt Hatfield Scholarship for Banjo and/or Guitar Students is awarded to a guitar or banjo student based on commitment, excellence, and accomplishment.  Open ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=105 The Cowan Community Center has enjoyed the great honor of having been nominated for and receiving the Governor's 2007-2008 Folk Heritage Award for their role in preserving and promoting Kentucky's traditional arts.  Many thanks to our previous Arts Coordinator, Susanne Savell, for the honor she bestowed upon the center by nominating us.  There are ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=86 The Cowan Community Center has been awarded an Appalachian Regional Commission Flex-E Grant through a partnership with the Brushy Fork Institute of Berea, KY, the Appalachian Early Childhood Center, and the Cowan Community Center Head Start.   The grant in the amount of $10,000 will enable the Cowan Community Center to expand its program ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=87  Thanks to everyone who helped make this year one of the best Cowan Creek Mountain Music Schools ever! We have been building this school, and the extended family that belongs to it, for seven years now. From all the staff, faculty and volunteers of CCMMS, we want to extend a ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=83 We are happy to announce that the previously out-of-print CCMMS 2001 Faculty Concert CD, the first music school concert featuring Art Stamper, Dirk Powell & Chritine Balfa, Lee Sexton, Jesse Wells and many of your favorite CCMMS faculty, is now available for digital download through JuneAppal Records! As with all CCMMS ... http://www.cowancreekmusic.org/?p=77